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Thesium andongense

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Identification
Thesium andongense Hiern [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Thesium andongense
  • Thesium virgatum
  • Thesium subaphyllum

Flora

Entry for THESIUM andongense Hiern. [family SANTALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 411, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
THESIUM andongense Hiern. [family SANTALACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 937.
Information
Annual, virgately much branched, nearly glabrous, 3–4 ft. high; stems and branches conspicuously angled and ribbed, angles in lower part widened to form foliaceous wings. Leaves at the base 2, opposite, linear, above reduced to minute scales. Flowers nearly sessile in the axils of scale-like bracts, arranged in slender spicate racemes; bracts and bracteoles 2 or 3, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long. Perianth 1 1/4 lin. long; lobes narrowly elliptic, subacute, 1/2– 5/8 lin. long, with a few hairs on the margin. Filaments 1/4 lin. long; anthers 3/8 lin. long. Style 3/4 lin. long. Fruit globose, 1 1/4 lin. in diam., ribs not prominent, reticulations well marked.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in thin bushy, sandy, rocky forest near Mopopo, not far from the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 6434!
Notes
It is possible that Gossweiler, 983, without flowers or fruits, from the forests of Mudobo, near Catambi, may belong to this species; the native name is given as lucangi, and it is said to have medicinal properties of use in stomach disorders.

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